- On using patents to measure innovation. Fails to ask if using patents to measure innovation is better than nothing.
- Kimchi basics. “So much depth of flavor.”
- Reubin Andres, important weight control researcher, dies. “For some reason the idea has grabbed us that the best weight throughout the life span is that of a 20-year-old,” Dr. Andres said in a 1985 interview with The New York Times. “But there’s just overwhelming evidence now that as you go through life, it’s in your best interests to lay down some fat.”
- Margaret Wente, Globe & Mail columnist and serial something or other. Wente defends herself, plus 1922 comments, few or none of which support her. For example, “Apparently Margaret thinks that a compilation of her journalistic lapses is irrelevant if the person documenting them over time and bringing them to light is a person she doesn’t like.” More comment on Wente. Another Globe & Mail columnist uses her column to sell her house. The Globe & Mail is the New York Times of Canada.
Thanks to Rashad Mahmood.
One reason that the tables of desirable BMI must be wrong is that they make no allowance for age or sex. Perhaps they ought ideally to allow for race too. Who knows?
Gary Becker argues that patents should be minimal: http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2012/09/reforming-the-patent-system-toward-a-minimalist-system-becker.html